Prayer, Thankfulness, Adversity 

Outlines on the Parables of Jesus By Croft Pentz / Baker The Sermon Outline series provides busy pastors with well-reasoned sermon material. Scriptural, affordable, and easy to use, these timesaving books can be used for a variety of occasions and include outlines for special days, evangelism, and great themes of the Bible.

Matthew Henry, the great Biblical scholar, one night was walking home and he was mugged, beat to a pulp, his wallet stolen. That night in his journal, Matthew Henry wrote these words: "Lord, I thank you. I thank you that I have never been robbed before. Lord, secondly I thank you that they took my wallet, but not by life. Thirdly Lord, I thank you that I was the one who was robbed, not the one doing the robbing." (source: sermon titled Seeking God's Will http://www.centralpc.org/sermons/1999/s990620.htm)

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